BOE keeps policy unchanged in a unanimous decision

Haresh Menghani FXStreet

At its first meeting of 2018, the Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the benchmark interest rate at 0.5% in a unanimous 9-0 vote.

The Committee also decided unanimously to maintain its asset purchase facility at £435 billion and corporate bond target at £10 billion.

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